Mmn, good question. Dark wonder is still just a figment of Tsuki's imagination, she doesn't technically have a mind of her own, because she's just a part of her. Her aid can be viewed by Tsuki as more of a motive that she's not mentally stable as she's seeing a being that no one else can, a figure made up of her tragic reality and the process of leaving her comfy childhood behind and entering the transition of becoming an adult. Though Dark Wonder can offer as an aid, she can also become a pull, she's looked upon as more of a question that Tsuki has to answer, does she want to face reality and defeat her? Or does she just want to continue running and accept her?

So, Wonder, in both aspects, can be seen as an anthropomorphised manifestation of aspects of Tsuki's own mind from which she has experienced dissociation? Of course, in such cases, facing reality and fighting the delusions is probably not enough, unless that also means seeking treatment; a prescription for antipsychotics would probably do a lot of good.

On the other hand, there is the example of John Nash, a Nobel Prize winning mathematician diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, who gave up taking medications and learnt, with some difficulty, to distinguish between reality and hallucinations, and ignore the latter. He says he's always a little slow around new people, as it takes a while to make sure they're real. If you haven't seen/read *A Beautiful Mind*, I recommend it.

Yerr, she goes through a lot of shit, but such as life, although hers might be a little more fucked up. But yesss. I've been meaning to watch that movie, I've had several people tell me about it and to go and watch it, I however keep forgetting the title of it, but you seem to know it, I'll defs have to watch it someday soon. Perhaps it'll give me some ideas. I'm really into psychology and the such, but have lots to research as of yet.

It's a really interesting subject - in fact, my research (I'm a PhD student) is in a closely related area - computational developmental linguistics. It's fascinating how many different disciplines and levels of description are involved in studying the mind/brain - from the molecular biology of the single neuron to social psychology!

There are lots of good stories to be told, I think, by creating an interesting, resilient character, and making them deal with lots of fucked-up shit. Kurt Vonnegut put it best; "Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of." My main OC, Morta, has a few neurological issues of her own, and that's only the beginning of what she has to get through…

Indeed, there's so many different types. I tried to get into a psychology class in college when I was in need of my academic courses, but it turned out I was kinda late with registering and it ended up being full.

Sounds like my quote to go by, haha. Sometimes I wonder if I should have placed Tsuki in more of a slice of life story with just regular life issues, but I can't go back now. Wonder just doesn't fit with anyone else, and It'd minus out too many other characters, and boy does she meet up with a lovely one later on.